Not. They claimed they did a clean room implementation based on Apache > Harmony, but it turned out at least some files weren't a clean room > implementation. >
If you go ahead and actually look at the files though, it's pretty hard to argue that "Android contains line-by-line copies of Oracle' JDK": http://www.scribd.com/doc/40316099/orclgoogcode There are differences in block scoping (with or without curly brace), argument variable names (logic english names vs. symbols), iteration constructs (for, do and while), constant folding etc. Even if this points to reverse engineering (it does smell of decompilation) of a binary class, it's still not an infringement of Oracle IP. Does anyone know which specific 9 lines are we talking about? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/koEijv9bEXoJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
